Update: Beyond Utopia recognized as Emmy award nominee

HUGE NEWS! Beyond Utopia was just recognized as an Emmy Award Nominee for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking!

Beyond Utopia is a suspenseful and riveting portrait of the lengths people will go for freedom.

The film raises the curtain on life in North Korea as no film has done before. Madeleine Gavin’s acclaimed documentary unfolds like a real-time geopolitical thriller as it follows the efforts of a devoted pastor whose underground network serves as the only hope for North Koreans desperate to escape a life of oppression and to embrace a new world of freedom.

Congrats to the entire team of producers, partners, crew, film participants, and Independent Lens PBS — we’re so proud!

If you haven’t seen this historic film yet, it’s now available on digital and on demand. You can find where the film is specifically available and streaming here.